[...] In order to give full effect to the Charter in the digital age, the Commission has proposed a major reform of the EU's rules on the protection of personal data. Europe's historical experience has led to a common understanding in Europe that privacy is an integral part of human dignity and personal freedom. This is why the Charter recognises both the right to private life (Article 7) and the right to the protection of personal data (Article 8). The Treaty (Article 16, TFEU) gives the EU complementary legislative competence to establish harmonised EU data protection laws.The Commission's proposals update and modernise the principles enshrined in the 1995 Directive to guarantee the right of personal data protection in the future. This reform provides for increased responsibility and accountability for those processing personal data and strengthens independent national data protection authorities. It introduces the ‘right to be forgotten’, which will help people better manage data protection risks online. The reform extends general data protection principles and rules to national police and criminal justice authorities. The new rules have been drafted to ensure a careful balance with all fundamental rights they may affect, such as freedom of expression. A meaningful example of this is that specific safeguards have been introduced in the proposal for data that is processed solely for journalistic purposes. [...]

Über mich

Working at Research Institute https://www.researchinstitute.at. Co-founder and board member of Privacyofficers.at (Association of Austrian DPOs). Former Legal Counsel and Data Protection Officer at Medical University of Vienna. Prior to that, I was working at the Austrian Parliament and as a legal research associate at the University of Hanover (Germany), IRI - Institute for Legal Informatics (Prof. Forgó). Earlier, I was an inhouse lawyer at the Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications (RTR-GmbH).
I received my legal education at the University of Vienna (Austria) and University of Oslo (Norway), before attending a postgraduate course in IT-Law at the University of Vienna. I am an alumnus of IVLP ("Data Privacy and Principles" organized by the DoS). My publications are mainly dealing with Austrian and European Union Data Privacy Law. Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/E).